Tying the minimum wage to the CPI was a recommendation from the Minimum Wage Advisory Panel in its final report in 2014.

The primary sectors employing minimum wage workers are accommodation and food, retail trade and agriculture, according to the Ontario government, which also said this will be the ninth minimum wage increase since 2003.

Moving forward, minimum wage increases will be announced by April 1 each year, and will take effect October 1 of the same year.